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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glaceau:
I made the mistake of encrypting my phone without realizing I had to use a password or pin for unlocking, I just wanted to have to type the password on start up, but w.e. From what I understood, though, I'd be able to do a factory reset to remove encryption.. Evidently its not that easy. :/

Now I'm trying to do a factory reset, but I can't do anything in clockworkmod recovery (I think) because of the encryption. I just get this when I try:

--Wiping data...

Formatting /data

Error mounting /data!

Skipping format...

Formatting /cache

Formatting /sd-ext...

Formatting /sdcard/ .android_secure...

Error mounting /sdcard/ .android_secure...

Skipping format...

Data wipe complete.

I've also tried doing a factory reset from the settings, and it just reboots the phone. I've been searching online for 5 hours, and I have no clear idea of what to do. I found this: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ne...3923-guide-nexus-4-factory-image-restore.html but I can't get the driver to work properly on windows 8.1.. I followed the instructions for windows 8 here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1996051 but when I type "fastboot devices" nothing shows up. :( Is there anything I can do to solve this??

Edit: Tried Using The Nexus Root Toolkit, it gives me a success message when checking the driver. But no luck with adb/fastboot recognising the device at all.. When I use it(nexus toolkit) to flash the stock rom it doesn't work, Ill try with "force flash" enabled and report back.

Edit: Was successful flashing stock, no more encryption. So other than adb fastboot not working, problem solved!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] I Hate Import Cars:
Hey everyone. I have searched around and can't find an answer to this, so here goes;

I have a Verizon Galaxy S4 and while I love the phone and all the ROM's out for it, I HATE that due to it's limited 16GB internal memory, I am CONSTANTLY running out of space on the phone. I have moved everything I can to my SD card but still can't get it down. When I open my phone on my PC and look at the internal memory, I see a ton of folders that I don't know what the hell they are. I would love to just go through arbitrarily and delete them all but obviously that's not a great idea. Can anyone tell me and/or compile a list of files and folders that commonly end up on our phones from bloat and whatnot?

Here's a screenshot of what I see in mine, just as a for instance...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Hashbang173:
Do you have a lot of photos?

They would be in the DCIM folder
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] I Hate Import Cars:
Thanks for the reply. There are a lot in there. Can I not move that folder to the SD card?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] JeeperDon:
I only got the S4 last Saturday, and today UPS brought my 32G SD card. When I went to the camera app to see if there were any way to change the target location, a popup said (about), "You now have an SD card, so all single shots will now go there. Multi-shots will still go to the internal storage." There is indeed a setting for that though, Internal or SD. I plan to leave the DCIM folder on the Internal, but let it be empty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] jpcalhoun:
You probably already know this...but here goes:

-By all means invest in an external sdcard. Use the sdcard to store all your pictures, video, music and any other documents you may be storing on your phone.

-There are two apps in the Play Store that enable you to "sort of" move apps to sdcard. Aparted will allow you to partition your sdcard. You create a partition that will be reserved for app data, cache and other "stuff". Link2SD is the app that will use that partition to "link" your apps to the data etc being stored on the sdcard partition. I saved about 1gb by using these two apps. This only works on your downloaded apps, not on system apps. Your apps will update and run as normal, but their associated data etc will be stored on the sdcard partition you create.

-Consider the type ROM you're running, if you have an option. Generally speaking, TW ROMs are more "heavy" than AOSP ROMS. You have to pick your poison. If you like and use all the unique features Samsung has put on the S4 (hand gestures, smart screen etc) then a AOSP ROM may not be what you want as your daily driver. Yes, it will use less resources in terms of RAM and internal storage, but some of those unique features that you like will not be available because most of the supporting firmware has been removed in an AOSP ROM. If you're forced to use SafeStrap to flash ROMs then your options are even fewer.

-There are a number of "safe to remove or freeze" list floating around on the web or in this forum. Like most things, one man's passion is another man's poison. Just because some guy says "xxxx.apk" is safe to remove or freeze doesn't mean it won't have an undesirable effect for you. Besides, you really don't save a lot of storage space by deleting most of those things. Unless it is truely "bloat" like NFL Football or Blockbuster I just freeze those things associated with functions or apps that I know I will never use. On a TW ROM that usually means most of the Samsung "stuff".

Hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] dowens9603:
Remove Stuff

Removing all of the Samsung stuff that you dont use dose free up some space. Even with that I have found on the TW roms I can only hold 2 of them on my internal storage. Usually I have my Daily driver rom on there and any new roms that I want to try I just have to keep deleing those when I want to put a new one on.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] semitechguy:
OK Is there a better Camera app then the stock on?. I dont know what everyone else this but i'm no fond of this camera on the phone.Has anyone else had any better luck with it. most of my pics are blurry
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloodrain954:
People always blame the equipment.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ktan188:
Are you on Sense or AOSP/GE? The Sense 5 camera app is the best since it uses the "ultra pixel" technology.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
ever since i got this phone i been having trouble trying to get TEP they keep saying call back.. i always hace had TEP on every sprint phone i have had.. im on the phone now and they saying that they cant do it for some reason?? what im i supposed to do.. wtf?? where can i get good phone insurance at? im really pissed about this.. if i knew that i couldnt get TEP on this phone i never would have gotten it.. i would have just kept my gs4.. now i have a phone that i have NO insurance on cant find any cases or screen protectors for the darn thing.. like wtf.. yea i kno i can get a case off line which i alreadt orderd one but that will take 1-2 weeks to get her.. i NEED insurance.. so guys who or what insurance do u guys use?? i need some for peice of mind
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belvedere:
The only way you would is if you bought the phone through Sprint. Guessing you didn't? Just take care of your things.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
yea i do take care of my things bro but **it happens.. well if i cant find decent insurance then its going on ebay:good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxpower7:
Really? TEP is a total ripoff. 10 bucks a month PLUS a $150 deductible on the off chance that you actually have to use it. Seems like kind of a questionable reason to sell your awesome new phone, especially when you can get a brand new one for $350. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
well see i like having insurance on every smartphone i ever had.. i really dont care what insurance it is.. all i kno is TEP.. do i want to sell my new phone.. na not really.. just want insurance on it that all ;) years ago my evo 4g got stolen paid 100$ they sent me a brandnew phone... so 10$ a month really dont bother me much.. what happens if something like that happens to my new phone.. im *****d
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkcarp94:
I'd never buy insurance on a $350 phone but I have Worth Ave Group insurance on my son's iphone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzood:
Why not set the $150 aside and then put away $10/mo as insurance?? You'd reach the outright purchase price of the phone pretty quick if you ever ran in to problems. It can't possibly be that hard to set aside some reserve in case your phone dies. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmyjoebob:
Sell the phone, then pay $450 for the same phone from Sprint, they'll let you pay $11 per month for high deductible insurance.

$450 cost of phone

$150 deductible if you lose it once.

$11 per month x 24 ? = $264

Spigen has both cases and screen protectors. http://stores.ebay.com/spigensgp/

I don't buy any other.

The insurance industry is working on your mind, now that you

need

insurance.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzood:
Totally rockin' the SlimArmor case on my N5! Fit's perfect and the buttons are great. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdawg0024:
I bought my phone from Google had to go to Sprint to get the SIM card. Had the tech switch my evo 4g LTE to the Nexus. He asked if I want to keep my insurance and I said yes. He also said that it would go down in cost from $11 to just $8.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
well u got lucky man.. cause i always had insurance since i been with sprint and when i switch from the s4 they said i had to switch my plan also cause i was on the 450 min plan.. so then i went with the my way new plan... then i talked to many reps and they all said they cant do it..??? they even credit me 20$ for the hassel..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjs2011:
I believe there are 3rd Party insurance companies you can go through. Sprint dropped mine too. But if something happens I'll just buy a new one outright.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruckus:
You can't get tep only insurance for if its physically damaged or liquid damaged which is dumb. But I'm a technician for sprint so if your in northern Virginia I can try to help you the best I can. But it may change in the future I will let my higher ups know and get this addressed to try to help not only you but people with this phone cause I don't think its fair that if your speaker goes out that you would have to pay $53 or $75 once they change it for not having in store coverage which cannot be covered. I think with all the people I know I should be able to get something done I'll post back when I get something confirmed but rest assured I will get tep for this phone for everyone that wants it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edisepic:
I activated my n5 today and they transfered my insurance no problem it actually went down to 8 a month instead of 11
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LymeWire:
The issue is the 32GB model, If you have the 16GB model you can get Sprint TEP on it, as I have it on mine and mine was bought from the play store, but anyone with the 32GB model will not be able to get Sprints TEP and will not be able to have sprint techs look at their phone in repair stores either, it's simply not supported. PS I am a technician at a corporate Sprint store
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cas8180:
Better than tep IMO

http://www.ensquared.com/Android-Cell-Phone-Insurance
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave99:
TEP is a ripoff. My credit card offers free coverage, as long as I pay my cell bill on it every month. $400 of coverage I believe, with something like a $50 deduct.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruckus:
I work at the employee store and bought the 16gb version (obviously) and it wouldn't let me get tep so it may just be a temporary issue with RMS
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] overtheair:
Which credit card is that?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericdabbs:
Forget the fact that you have insurance, how many times have you had to claim insurance in all the years you had the smartphone? I had TEP for my HTC Touch Pro for almost 1.5 years back in 2009/2010 and I only claimed it once. To me it was a rip off and this was when it was still $7/mo. At $11/mo currently it is even more of a rip off. To add insult to injury the Galaxy Nexus 5 is only $350 unlike the GS4 or iPhone 5S which are $650-$700.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cordell12:
I went to sprint Corperate Store yesterday, trying to get a new SIM card. For some odd reason I only get LTE with a few of the ROMs in dev section. Unfortunately my own ROM, SlimKat, is not one of them :(

Anyway, they denied me a SIM, said they dont have any. Only have Iphone SIM's, what a crock of $hit! He told me Google needs to give me a SIM, and who sells a phone without one. The guy was being a smart a$$. He then proceeds to tell me my SIM from my S4 should be fine to use (ive been using that SIM since the 7th) and he will get LTE fixed right up. Long story short, he couldnt do it, lol. He offered to swap my phone out, knowing I bought it from Google. Said my insurance will cover me, I can swap when ever I want, just say the word and he will order me a replacement. I took my phone and left, ordered a SIM via Sprint Chat. Need to see if he added that crappy TEP to my account now.

/endrant
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dave99:
wells fargo
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RippeR37:
I switched to my S4 from S2 and since i use my phone as GPS navigation, radio (when need to) etc. i frequently used s2 dedicated vehicle dock. It always switch my phone to driver mode, which was - chaning screen (including touchwiz!!!) to horizontal position if it phone was in horizontal position, phone'ing and answering automaticlly turned on loud speaker so i could hear someone from it etc.

I've recently bough the S3 mount and i'm not so happy with it. But what i miss most in S4 is that auto-driving-mode-things. I know S4 has driving mode, but it doesnt rotate touchwiz and doesnt auto turn on speaker for phone calls. Is there an app or some way (mod) for me to use such things? I'm on MH8 with root so as long as it doesn't require custom kernel/recovery i should be able to use it (though it would be best to use just normal app, should be enough).

Also i prefer touchwiz and if there is possibility i'd like to stick with it (for that auto-rotate thing, i know that other lauchner have that ability from start).
[Nexus 5 General] chrisngrod:
My preference as an AT&T user is the original Visual Voicemail application over the AT&T messages app. The latter tries to combine all of your call lists, text messages, voicemails, etc in one. Some people rather retain control over their text messages. You can disable notifications, but I know at one point it would still semi interfere with other messaging applications.

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Just in case you had your phone voicemail forwarding to another number, please view this video to reset it:

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[Nexus 5 General] beazie0885:
Having issues with my setup, no option to enter pin. And when i follow their instructions, it just hangs at waiting for verification :(
[Nexus 5 General] mrro82:
Last I heard vvm was att spyware.

Sent from the jaws of my Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] beazie0885:
**uninstalled**
[Nexus 5 General] vbcoderx:
Idk about the spyware thing, but if its hanging at waiting for verification, you probably don't have vvm provisioned on your account. Make sure your data plan says something about having vvm.
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
Just use Google Voice. Visual voicemail that can be accessed on any device or PC.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisngrod:
Yeah I don't know about the whole spyware thing.

Anyways sometimes visual voicemail takes a little while to provision. Just a glitch in the matrix. Probably network load related.
[Nexus 5 General] mp5cartman:
Google voice for visual voice mail here, im also on att
[Nexus 5 General] Lucke:
Google Voice and Death Star Mobile here as well
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
You can't go wrong with Google Voice, especially if you live in Google-land. A minute ago I got a voicemail. A notification message with a full, mostly-accurate transcription of the voicemail went to my phone and Gmail. Gmail has native support and allows you to play the VM right from inside the email. Pretty convenient.
[Nexus 5 General] Wallyj2000:
AT&T visual voicemail not able to download it to my Nexus 5

Hi, I am new to the forum I just got my Nexus 5 about two weeks ago and decided to use the AT&T visual voicemail every time I go to the play store to download the app tells me this app is not supported on your device don't know why I'm getting that error message it won't let me download it although I took my Sim card out of my iPhone 5 and I just put it in the new Nexus phone I'm thinking that could be the problem because the network still things that I have an iPhone 5. someone if someone could please help me I would really appreciate it

Thanks,
[Nexus 5 General] toyfreak:
Download the .apk and sideload it :)
[Nexus 5 General] Wallyj2000:
AT&T visual voicemail not able to download it to my Nexus 5

Hi, I downloaded The apk into my computer I tried to drag the file with android file transfer into my Nexus 5. I have a MacBook Pro computer I'm running Mavericks, once I dragged it in the Nexus 5 could not find it any suggestions how to install it

Thanks, Wally
[Nexus 5 General] toyfreak:
Download it directly with Nexus 5 then open downloads and open the .apk to install.
[Nexus 5 General] ericshmerick:
Everyone should use Google Voice. No MMS, but it's not 2006, so...

FYI, in order for call forwarding to work properly with GV on AT&T, you need to call AT&T and insist that they disable visual voicemail on your account. After all you don't need it.

After you do this, forwarding will work perfectly. Took me a week to figure this out.
[Nexus 5 General] r3zd0g:
I've found older versions of the att visual voice mail apk around on the forums, but the latest is 2.5.2 on the play store. Anyone have an APK for that to side load onto a nexus 5?
[Nexus 5 General] dfwjose:
I found a link to the apk in this thread but I'm getting stuck after entering my password. Any ideas why I'm getting stuck here?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2018018
[Nexus 5 General] dfwjose:
Called AT&T to confirm that VVM is enabled on my account and it is but they couldn't figure out why it's not working. They are getting Tier 3 support to contact me know and I should get a call between now and 1/15.
[Nexus 5 General] LVGN:
This would be nice to know cause I called At&t and was told the N5 wasn't supported. Wtft sjnce I use ur services. Oh well....how do I setup Google voicemail?

Thank U
[Nexus 5 General] dfwjose:
I have a feeling that's what they are going to tell me hence why it won't work through the Play Store but have no idea how others here were able to get it to work unless something has changed. I'll post up here what I find out.
[HTC One X] Death Of Rats:
This is what my camera shows before a force close after about 15 secs. Do you reckon this is hardware or software? Is there a way to uninstall/reinstall the stock camera. I'm unrooted and on stock.

View attachment 2386863
[HTC One X] nikola016:
Make a factory reset, backup all you need.

If that don't help, it's hardware 99%:(
[HTC One X] Death Of Rats:
Well a factory reset didn't work. So I hit it off table a few times and it's now working perfectly. :eek:
[HTC One X] nikola016:
Like i said, it's hardware problem, maybe connection is bad, so you forced it to connect :D
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taffypride:
Looking to Deodex my phone so I can use more addons for it.

I used to use Xultimate back when I had a HTC Sensation.

Is this still the best option for deodexing? Currently running stock rooted 10.3.1.A.2.67
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aethervagrant:
I dont know about xultimate, the last release was pretty old and there are such good stock based roms here that its probably not seen as needed.

But over here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2454829

Is a good guide to getting stock firmware with more permanent root, recovery and deodexed if you dont want to mess with it yourself in android kitchen or install one of the deodexed stock based roms available.

Then get busy with xposed modules and your phone will be your little b+*$ for customizing.

And over here if you want to do it yourself, my apologies if you already know and were just looking for info on the tool but: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2374008
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eryen:
Xultimate is still one of the best script on market.

Just update smali.jar and baksmali.jar with latest versions, so can manage latest jb applications.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taffypride:
cheers guys :) I'll give it a shot :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] stanip:
Hi, I do SMS messaging and Emails many times in a day. However, with MS putting SMS and Email all under MESSAGING, I need to press several steps Messaging-Inbox-Mail or SMS before I can get to Mail or SMS which is troublesome. Wonder if there are ways to set short-cut or separate hardware bottons to Email and to SMS?

I was looking thru the Window folder but could not find them. Any advice? Thanks.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Have a look at this post and my responses.

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=36650&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

VJPhoneTools will help you with this.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] stanip:
Vijay, thanks for your advice. I installed the phone tool in my Jasjar. I tried the steps you outlined but somehow it does not allow me to edit the message. After assigned it to a botton, when I pressed, it gives me the sample message instead of the tool. Could you please give me the detailed steps on a Universal? Thanks again for helping.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Richard Schmidt:
I use PQz to define a button to execute the following MortScript

Run \Windows\tmail.exe

Sleep 3000

# open menu

MouseClick 500, 470

# switch accounts

SendKeys "w"

Sleep 1000

# go to my account fastmail, menu shortcut 'f'

SendKeys "f"

Sleep 1000

# perform send/receive

MouseClick 500, 470

SendKeys "s"

This could easily be adapted to switch between SMS/email acount with one button press
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Stanip, if you read through my responses in the thread I indicated, I explain how to edit the demo shortcuts. Read particularly:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=201634#201634

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] stanip:
Vijay, got it working already. It is great. Really appreciate your advice! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad_Scientist_565:
so picture you have a 10.1 inch tablet. (or any tablet for that matter) that has WI-FI built in. this tablet also has (for simplicities sake in explaining what im talking about) a gigabit port inside the device. the actual port is at the end of a 1" tunnel. This tunnel resembles a stylus tunnel on the note 3.

inside this "slot, slides a 1" wide , 8mm thick "cell phone" the phone has a simplistic screen, and a keypad, enough ram and processing power to get calls/text done. But it also has a radio. it also has the ability to interface with the tablet ( think lan cable) giving the wi-fi only tablet radio signal.

The idea behind this is that oyu have a practically fully functional tablet, but you also have a "cell phone" that you can drop in your pocket, or take with you on a quick grocery run, etc. flip phone style. you would charge the phone when inside the tablet, or via a stand alone charger.

the second part of teh idea is that the port would be standardized across all hard ware, so that the basic "radio" would fit in multiple devices. or you could keep your phone and buy a new tablet, or vice versa.. maybe you have a cell but no tablet, and your friend does..

Is this feasable? is it a bad idea? I constanlty find myself not wanting to take a 6" screen with me everywhere, or it just much simpler to pull the sim card and stick it in a dumb phone when you need to do rough work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad_Scientist_565:
I guess its a terrible idea then eh? LOL